Howe Caverns is a premier natural attraction, a living, limestone cave, carved by an underground river over the course of 6 million years, located 156-feet below the earth's surface. An Schoharie County, N.Y. farmer discovered the caverns more than 160 years ago. Formed in 1927, Howe Caverns incorporated, a public company owned by shareholders, opened the caverns to the public on Memorial Day weekend of 1929.
Definition of 'Volatility'. Definition: It is a rate at which the price of a security increases or decreases for a given set of returns. Volatility is measured by calculating the standard deviation of the annualized returns over a given period of time. It shows the range to which the price of a security may increase or decrease.
CBOE Volatility Index. A mathematical measure of the implied volatility of options trading on the S&P 500 index. That is, the CBOE Volatility Index attempts to measure the likelihood of option prices to vary unpredictably in the context of a particular pricing model in this case, the Black-Scholes model. A higher number on the index represents greater volatility, while a lower number represents lower volatility.